The words of others from quotations to culture / [electronic resource] :
Gary Saul Morson.
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2011.
- xi, 340 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Verbal gems and treasuries -- The market for quotations -- What is an anthology? -- Quotationality and former quotations -- The nature of quotations -- What is a quotation? -- Making a quotation -- What is a misquotation? -- More than words alone -- Mis-misquotations -- How and where quotations live -- Quotations of occasion -- Famous last words -- Epitaphs -- Literary composition and decomposition -- The anthology as literature -- Whole and part.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780300171747 (electronic bk.)
Quotations--History and criticism. Quotation in literature. Epitaphs--History and criticism.